Admin guide
Sign in at /admin with the admin password. The admin works on a phone, but it's most comfortable on a laptop.
Dashboard
Totals across every event: photos, guests who sent at least one photo, page views, downloads, storage used and photos waiting for approval. Below: uploads per day over the last 30 days, the five most active photographers, and the latest events.
Events
New event asks for a name and nothing else; every other setting has a default you can change later. Each event has four tabs.
Photos
The contact sheet of everything guests sent, newest first.
- Filter by All, Pending, Visible or Hidden.
- Tap photos to select them, then Approve, Hide or Delete from the bar at the bottom. Hidden photos disappear for the guest who took them too, and leave the live wall; deleted photos are removed from disk.
- Download ZIP gets every visible photo at full resolution, named
0001-camille-1a2b3c4d.jpgso they sort in the order they were taken. The archive streams, so even a multi-gigabyte album starts downloading immediately.
Stats
Uploads per hour over the event (a party lasts a night, so hours are the useful unit), page views, downloads, wrong access codes and top photographers.
QR & sharing
- Guest link: the address behind the QR code, to paste in a message.
- QR code design: presets, colors, dot and corner shapes, margin, a logo in the middle and a caption. The preview is the exact file you download, as PNG (512 to 4096 px) or SVG. Remember to Save before downloading.
- Printable poster: an A4 card with the event name, date and QR code.
- Open live wall: a full-screen slideshow for a projector or a TV. New photos jump the queue and appear within five seconds; in between, it cycles through the latest ones. Only visible photos are shown, so with Approve each photo first nothing reaches the screen until you approve it.
- Generate a new link: changes the address. The old QR code stops working at once, for everyone. Use it if the code leaked.
Settings
| Section | Setting | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Event | Name, welcome message, date, accent color | What guests see at the top of their page. The color tints the camera and the buttons; the text on it adjusts automatically. |
| Access | Access code | Optional, 6+ characters. Guests type it once. Leave empty to let the QR code alone grant access. |
| Uploads | Accept uploads | Turn uploads off at any time; guests keep their own photos. |
| Close uploads automatically at | For example the morning after. | |
| Capture mode | Camera only (the default), library only, or both. | |
| Photos per guest | 0 for no limit. Guests see a counter of photos left. | |
| Moderation | Publish immediately and hide later, or approve each photo first. | |
| Guests | Album language | Automatic (each guest's phone) or one fixed language. Guests can still switch. |
| Ask guests for their name | Shown next to their photos in the admin and on the live wall. |
Danger zone: deleting an event removes every photo from disk. Type the event name to confirm.
Settings
- Language and theme for your own browser.
- Admin password: changing it signs out every other session. Not available when
ADMIN_PASSWORDis set: change the variable and restart instead.